“Violence against women and violence against the Earth, legitimated and promoted by both patriarchal religion and science, are interconnected assaults rooted in the eroticization of domination. The gynocidal culture’s image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.”
- Jane Caputi, from “Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth”
George Oppen, “Leviathan”
Truth also is the pursuit of it:
Like happiness, and it will not stand.
Even the verse begins to eat away
In the acid. Pursuit, pursuit;
A wind moves a little,
Moving in a circle, very cold.
How shall we say?
In ordinary discourse—
We must talk now. I am no longer sure of the words,
The clockwork of the world. What is inexplicable
Is the ‘preponderance of objects,’ The sky lights
Daily with that predominance
And we have become the present.
We must talk now. Fear
is fear. But we abandon one another.”
(via hypocrite-lecteur)
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.” - Audre Lorde
(thesemightysecrets via defamiliar)
(Source: ryanbhilliard)
in coincidence: the coin, flipping.
(Source: mediumtoheavyhanded)
